Re: 2009 Senate Bill 232 (Ban school junk food sales )

marysunshine — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:49:31 GMT

ANOTHER given in the health field came under scrutiny yesterday as an expert challenged the notion that a diet consisting of 30 percent fat, a widely promoted goal, would reduce the incidence of heart disease.

The notion has only the flimsiest scientific grounding, the expert, a British cardiologist, said after reviewing the world's medical literature.

First International Conference on Fats and Oils and Human Disease, held at Rockefeller University in New York, he concluded that studies of people whose diets achieve the 30 percent goal show that the diets had virtually no effect on cholesterol levels. More restrictive diets are effective, but few healthy people comply with them for very long, Dr. Oliver, a heart disease researcher, said.

In addition, Dr. Oliver said, large clinical trials conducted over the last two decades have failed to demonstrate that the national goal of a 30 percent fat diet has any effect on heart disease rates.

2009 Senate Bill 232 (Ban school junk food sales )

admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on February 17, 2009

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Re: 2009 Senate Bill 232 (Ban school junk food sales )

2009 Senate Bill 232 (Ban school junk food sales )